A Look Back

September 10, 2006

Sept. 10, 1963: Twenty black students entered Alabama public schools after a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace. Sept. 11, 2001: In the single worst act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil, nearly 3,000 people died when two hijacked jetliners crashed into New York's World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall, a commandeered jetliner smashed into the Pentagon and a fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania. Sept. 12, 2005: Officials in New Orleans reported the bodies of more than 40 mostly elderly patients were found in a flooded-out hospital. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown resigned, three days after losing his on-site command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Sept. 13, 1971: A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives. Sept. 14, 1814: Francis Scott Key was inspired to write his poem "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. Sept. 15, 1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.